Boing Boing tv: Cafe Tacvba -- Interview and Performance (Music)

Café Tacvba (MySpace, Wikipedia) are one of the most, if not the most, imaginative and recklessly experimental indie rock bands ever to come out of Latin America. They formed in near Mexico City in the late '80s, and have been happily mutating ever since. I'm always kind of surprised when non-Spanish-speaking American friends don't know who they are -- they're sort of like the Radiohead of Mexico. Anyway, Boing Boing tv caught up with the tacubos backstage after their set at the Outside Lands festival, and our UK-based music correspondent Russell Porter asked them important questions about their excellent shoes, and why lots of ladies run screaming to stage-rush them during shows (Answer: because they're awesome).

Sponsor Note: This episode, and other BBtv music features this month, are sponsored by the Crowdfire live music social media project. You can find images, video, and audio about the band featured in today's show at Crowdfire -- here's the search link for fan-uploads related to Café Tacvba.

One of my fondest concert memories comes from a Cafe Tacuba show around 1995. They were about to play their song “El Borrego”, which is a sort of fast industrial-hardcore punk song; the guitar player had just barely strummed the first note, when an 8-meter wide mosh pit formed, instantly! Everybody knew what was coming, heh! Of course, I jumped into the pit, headbanging, arms flailing like a madman… with my eyes half closed. After a few seconds of fury, I stopped to sort of re-orient myself, and I realized I had reached the edge of the moshpit and was about to crush two young girls, barely on their teens. The horrified look on their faces was priceless!